{"id":59564,"date":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/pulitzer-prize-winner-to-discuss-surveillance-at-uri-honors-colloquium-nov-18\/"},"modified":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winner-to-discuss-surveillance-at-uri-honors-colloquium-nov-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/pulitzer-prize-winner-to-discuss-surveillance-at-uri-honors-colloquium-nov-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize winner to discuss surveillance at URI Honors Colloquium, Nov. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Nov. 17, 2014 \u2013 Award winning investigative journalist, Julia Angwin, will speak at the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Honors Colloquium, Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. The free, public lecture talk is titled, \u201cIs Privacy Becoming a Luxury Good?\u201d <\/p>\n


\nThe lecture will be held in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road. Angwin will discuss her efforts trying to protect her privacy, and will raise questions about whether we want to live in a society where only the rich can buy their way out of ubiquitous surveillance.<\/p>\n


\nThe presenting sponsor is Cox Business. Thanks to the generosity of Cox Business a free iPad mini will be given away at each event. You must attend the event to have a chance to win. <\/p>\n

Angwin is a senior reporter for the independent news organization ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she was on a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of corporate corruption. At the Journal, she also led a team covering online privacy that was a finalist for a 2012 Pulitzer.<\/p>\n


\nHer book “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance,” was published by Times Books in 2014. She is also the author of \u201cStealing Myspace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAngwin received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a master\u2019s degree from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. <\/p>\n


\nClick here for a full schedule of Cybersecurity and Privacy speakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nThose unable to attend the lecture can watch it live online at URI Live!<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n


\nPresenting Sponsor: Cox Business<\/p>\n


\nMajor Sponsors: URI Honors Program.<\/p>\n


\nSponsors: \u2028URI Office of the President; Uri Office of the Provost; The Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment; The Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment;\u2028URI College of Human Science and Services;\u2028URI Talent Development;\u2028URI Multicultural Center;\u2028URI College of Arts & Sciences;\u2028URI Harrington School of Communications and Media;\u2028URI John Hazen White, Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service;\u2028URI College of Pharmacy;\u2028URI College of Engineering;\u2028URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences;\u2028URI College of Nursing;\u2028URI College of Business Administration;\u2028URI Division of Student Affairs;\u2028URI Department of Communications and Marketing;\u2028URI Department of Publications and Services;\u2028URI ITS Instructional Technology and Media Services<\/p>\n


\nThis release was written by Caitlin Musselman, a URI Marketing and Communications intern and a public relations and political science major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Nov. 17, 2014 \u2013 Award winning investigative journalist, Julia Angwin, will speak at the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Honors Colloquium, Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. The free, public lecture talk is titled, \u201cIs Privacy Becoming a Luxury Good?\u201d The lecture will be held in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}